The BOBs 2008 Awards Ceremony Live
2008-11-21
This year's awards ceremony will be video streamed and blogged live from Berlin! So you can now tune as the jury announces the winners. Our live stream is being generously provided by Sevenload and Peter Bihr will be blogging the event live. The blog and the stream will be in English.
"And the winner is…"
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Welome to the final stage of the BOBs - Let's vote!
2008-10-27
Online voting runs until November 26
Over 8,500 blogs, videoblogs and podcasts were nominated in 16 categories for the BOBs this year - a new record for the BOBs. We would like to thank all of our users who participated.
Those long lists have been narrowed down by our jury members to the top eleven and now it's your turn to take part.
The People's Choice Awards
All 176 finalists are are ready and waiting for your vote. The nominees in the five mixed-languages categories have an English description.
To vote, just click on the "Cast Your Vote!" tab above.
The Jury Winners
The International Jury will meet on November 26 to decide the winners of the jury awards in each category. The Deutsche Welle will take place on November 27 at 20:00 at a public event at the Museum for Communication in Berlin. The Keynote at the event will be given by Cédric Kalonji, winner of the "Best Weblog French" award last year.
So get voting!
The BOBs Team
User Voting Prize!
Everyone who participates in the online voting will be entered into a raffle for an HTC Touch Dual Smartphone.
The BOBs support:
2008-10-07

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. This year's topic: Poverty.
Deutsche Welle and The BOBs are proud to be a sponsor and a participant in this important event.
Now it's the jury's turn
2008-10-01
Online Voting Begins October 27
The nomination phase of the BOBs is now over. In the past weeks, over 8,000 blogs, podcasts and videoblogs from all over the world have been nominated for the BOBs 2008 -- a new BOBs record!
Our team would like to thank all of you who took part and nominated your favorite blogs.
Now it is up to the jury to sort through [...more]
The BOBs 2008
2008-08-31
We Just passed 11,000 registered Blogs! And we would like to thank the blogging public for getting us there!
But the BOBs are just getting started. Not only was August 31, 2008 International BlogDay, but it also signaled the start of the fifth annual Weblog Awards from Deutsche Welle -- The BOBs -- with a new site design [...more]